Donald Trump had conversations on Moscow tower up to the 2016 US elections, Rudy Giuliani says
- The latest disclosure extends the contacts with Moscow months later than previously acknowledged
- Trump has insisted there was nothing wrong with seeking business opportunities while running for office
US President Donald Trump had conversations about a proposed project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, far later than previously acknowledged, his lawyer said on Sunday.
Trump’s conversations with his then personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who was spearheading the negotiations in Moscow, continued throughout the year until October or November 2016, Rudy Giuliani said.
“It’s our understanding that they went on throughout 2016 -- there weren’t a lot of them, but there were conversations,” the former New York mayor said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Can’t be sure the exact dates, but the president can remember having conversations with him about it,” he said.
Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison for an assortment of felonies, has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 when he testified that the negotiations had ended by January of 2016.
